Green Wings

Chicken wings. Uniquely American, the late 20th century bar food staple invoke bromances formed over lifelong allegiances to modern day he-men battling one another, with feigned enmity, so that brutish titans may line their already teeming coffers with even more gold. My mother’s favorite part of the chicken, wings remind me of how as a…

Sustainable Eating

I was embarrassed as a kid because my mother required me cook dinner for our family. At least she made my brother cook too unlike some of my friends parents with Southern roots – the girls did all the inside work, the boys the outside – but she certainly did treat my brother better than…

Had It Not Been For

We were the first to be killed in the Revolutionary War. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2p24.html  We are not Barack nor even Michelle. We are not the newly minted from Nigeria or Cuba who float to our shores hyperventilating, disdain in their first full breath, lying in wait for a turn to suckle the host we born through clichéd…